Renew the Climate Action Plan tax, or "carbon tax," on utility bills for another five years

Renew the 0.25 percent sales tax dedicated to parks and recreation for 20 years

Amend the city charter to allow leases of city property for up to 30 years, from the current 20 years

Allow City Council members to be compensated for 48 meetings a year instead of four meetings a month

Longmont ballot questions

Ban hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and the storage of fracking fluids within city limits

Renew Xcel's gas franchise for 20 years

Erie ballot question

Bond issue to build a $6.2 million police and courts headquarters

Louisville City Council

Ward I

Emily Jasiak (one-year term), unopposed

Louisville ballot question

Extend a 0.375 percent open space sales tax for 10 years

Superior Board of Trustees (three seats)

On ballot:

Elia Gourgouris

Joe Cirelli

Debra Williams

Write-ins:

Steve Smith

Jeff Chu

Lafayette ballot questions

Extend a 0.25 percent open space sales and use tax for 10 years

Amend the residential growth management code to extend and retain the aggregate building permit cap for a six-year period; allow the City Council to set the number of annual permit allocations

In what appears to be an about-face for Superior, the town will have a municipal election this November after all.

The news comes after two write-in candidates emerged this week to take spaces on the ballot. Superior officials recently said they would cancel the election for the first time in years because of a lack of challengers.

Only the three incumbents who face re-election -- Mayor Pro Tem Elia Gourgouris and trustees Debra Williams and Joe Cirelli -- submitted their paperwork by the Aug. 27 deadline to get on the ballot. But there was still a deadline -- Tuesday of this week -- for write-in candidates to jump in the race.

Former Trustee Jeff Chu did just that, securing for himself a blank line on the Nov. 6 ballot.

Steve Smith, a former president of the Rock Creek Homeowners Association, submitted his name as a write-in candidate hours before Tuesday's deadline, meaning there will be two spaces for write-ins on the November ballot.

Smith had gathered signatures to get his name printed on the ballot, but he said Friday that he wasn't informed about the later write-in deadline by Town Clerk Phyllis Hardin on Aug. 27. He also said he was assured by her that there would be no election because there were no challengers for contested seats.

Content with the current makeup of the Board of Trustees, Smith said he didn't want to cost the town $24,000 to coordinate an election with Boulder County and decided against turning in his nomination petition to get on the ballot.

"Had I known that somebody else could have gotten in as a write-in, I would have handed in my paperwork," he said. "It's (Hardin's) responsibility as the clerk to know all these rules."

Hardin didn't return a call or an email seeking comment Friday.

Smith said he disagrees politically with Chu and felt obligated to oppose him in the election.

Assistant Town Manager Beth Moyski said no error was made by the town clerk because all of the deadlines are listed in the packet that candidates pick up. And she said because there have been no write-in candidates in Superior for years, it wouldn't have occurred to Hardin to relay that information.

"I would not fault Phyllis for anything; that was not on her radar," Moyski said.

Smith, though, said the town "blocked my due process by giving me misinformation."

On Friday, he looked into trying to get a court order placing his name on the ballot but gave up after learning a decision might not come down until after the ballots are printed. Friday was the final day for municipalities to turn in ballot content to the Boulder County Clerk's Office.

Brad Turner, a spokesman for the Boulder County elections division, said the county coordinates with municipalities in elections but doesn't have oversight over clerks.

"This is a very unusual situation," he said Friday.

Smith said as a write-in candidate, his top priorities are development of Superior Town Center and forging unity among disparate parts of town -- such as Rock Creek, Sagamore and Original Town.

"I think we should be called the Town of Superior and we do things together," he said.

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